Automobile-tire.



No. 357.796. ATENTED J'UNE %1907.

- G. M. BWINS. AUTOMOBILE TIRB.

APPLIGATION PILED NOV. 5, 1906.

NORRIS PETERS. NC LITHD.V WASHINGTON. D. C

UNITED STATES GEORGE M. EWINS, OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

AUTOMOBlLE-TIRE.

Specification oi' Letters Patent.

Patented .Tune 25, leo?.

A i ti fil d November 5,1906; Serial No. 342,143.

To u/ZZ 7071/0777, zt may cmwern:

Be it known that' I, GEORGE M. Ewivs, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Cedar R apids, in thecounty of Linn and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Imprcvements in Automobile-Tires, of which the following is a specification. The object of this invention is to produce a pneumatic tire, or tire case, so constructed as to prevent punctures, and at the san'ie time having sufl'icient elasticity to 'serve for automobiles and other vehicles.

The nature of the invention will clearly appear from the description and claims following, reference being `had to the acconpanying d rawings, in whichr Figure l is a side View of a tire .e'mbodying; my invention-a part being broken away to show the puncture preventing metal bands embedded in the tire. Fig. 2`is a cross section of the same. Fig. 3 is a fragment of one of the steel bands wrapped spirally with canvas. Fig.'4 is a section of a band wrapped lengthwise with canvas.

The device is simple, and is described'as follows:

A is a tire-case of a familiar'type, having a canvas foundation B and the usual outer layer of ru'bber C. Around the tread portion of the tire, and embedded in the material thereof, are a number of continuous bands or hoops of elastic metal D and E, preferably of spring steel. These are made to conform approximately to ,the curvature of the tire, both transversely and circumferentially, and as shown in Fig. 2, are staggered with respect to each other, the* middle one being preferably considerably larger than the other two, and set so that its edges overlap those of the smaller adjacent bands. This is of course done in the process of building up the tire,

and is well calc'ulated to prevent any puncture by nails or other sharp ob ects in its path. At the same time the cdnstruction admts of independent movement, within a limited range, of all parts of the tire, and

without rubbing or abrading qi surfaces,' since the several bands are 'entirely out of contact with each other.

` In practice the bands are w'apped with canvas. F before embedding in the tire, and of course when the tire is vulcanized they become intimately, but flexibly, united with the body thereof, but the canvas protects their edges from cut-ting the rubber surrounding it. In the drawing I have shown a spiral wrap in Fig. 3, which might be suflicient for i the larger outer band, and in Fig. 4 a longitudinal Wrap with a projecting fiap, which is preferred for the ,smaller bands, the fiap being united With the foundationcanvas, as shown in Fig. 2.- V

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let'-' ters Patent, is: 7

A pneumatic tire 'or tire ase, having em.-

bedded in the tread portion thereof ajplii rality of continuous elastic metal bands,

conformmg approxmately in cross. section GEORGE M. EWINS.

i i VVitnesses:

EDWARD J. MONAHAN,

J. M. ST. JOHN. 

